Any YouTube client that doesn’t track me that works on Linux or in Firefox?
I used freetube a few years ago, but i dont know if the project is still active. Was a bit buggy, but acceptable for me
Been using it for half a year now, it’s amazing and running flawlessly as a flatpak on Fedora for me.
I can confirm it’s greatly improved in terms of reliability in the last couple of years.
https://freetubeapp.io and available as verified flatpak : https://flathub.org/apps/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
SMTube still seems to exist
I run LibreTube through Waydroid, but you have to enable HLS and do a bit of instancehopping to get it to work.
freetube is amazing
There are solutions that work. Like you, I would enjoy a simple app that allows for subscriptions and playlists without tracking or using an account. I mostly use RSS feeds (newsboat) and watch the videos through mpv.
And yt-fzf is great too. It uses invidious instances instead of YouTube links.
FreeTube
Plasmatube https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/plasmatube
I’d recommend FreeTube.
It has its own backend, but it can also use Invidious. As such, you can also run NewLeaf (an Invidious-compatible YouTube scraper based on the NewPipe scraper) in the background and connect to it via FreeTube, and that should work.
Freetube supports maximum 1080p, you should specify it.
I would say Freetube, it’s very similar to android alternatives but in Linux, can proxy your traffic trough individious’ instances… The only downside is the 1080p limitation
Why the limitation?
